The History Buff's Guide to World War II (61 page)

88
. Conversation between Boldin and Timoshenko in Mikhail Heller and Aleksandr M. Nekrich,
Utopia in Power
(New York: Summit Books, 1986), 370.

89
. Alexander Werth,
Russia at War, 1941–1945
(New York: Carroll and Graf, 1964), 40–141.

90
. John P. Davies Jr.,
Dragon by the Tail
(New York: Norton, 1972), 20–23.

91
. Jonathan Fenby,
Chiang Kai-Shek: China’s Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
(Carroll and Graf, 2004), 320–21.

92
. Ibid.

93
. See also Diana Lary, “Drowned Earth: The Strategic Breaching of the Yellow River Dyke, 1938,”
War in History
(2001): 205–7.

94
. Hitler quoted in Shirer,
Rise and Fall
, 1215.

95
. Yergin,
The Prize
, 326–27.

96
. Nimitz quoted in ibid.

97
. Ross,
U.S. War Plans
, 247.

98
. Ibid., 247–48.

99
. See also Charles Whiting,
A Bridge at Arnhem
(New York: Pinnacle Books, 1975).

100
. Talbot Charles Imlay, “A Reassessment of Anglo-French Strategy During the Phony War, 1939–1940,”
The English Historical Review
(April 2004): 333–72.

101
. See John S. D. Eisenhower,
The Bitter Woods
(New York: Putnam, 1969).

102
. Winston Churchill,
The Hinge of Fate
(New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 443–45.

103
. See also Terence Robertson,
Dieppe: The Shame and the Glory
(Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1962).

104
. William Manchester,
The Arms of Krupp
(Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1968), 416–19.

105
. Crosby,
Throwing Fire
, 150–53.

106
. Manchester,
The Arms of Krupp
, 419–20.

107
. Farrell,
Mussolini
, 342–43; Smith,
Mussolini’s Roman Empire
, 232–33.

108
. Hitler’s suicide lamentation on the Italian failure in Greece in Farrell,
Mussolini
, 343.

109
. Susanne Conze and Beate Fieseler, “Soviet Women as Comrades-in-Arms: A Blind Spot in the History of the War,” in
The People’s War
, ed. Thurston and Bonwetsch, 212, 218.

110
. Linda Grant de Pauw,
Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998), 236, 239, 248; Shelley Saywell,
Women in War
(New York: Viking, 1985), 103.

111
. Claudia Koonz,
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1987), 310; Mark A. Stoler, “The Second World War in U.S. History and Memory,”
Diplomatic History
(Summer 2001): 385; Gordon Wright,
Ordeal of Total War
(New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 60.

112
. Nicholas Atkin,
The French at War, 1934–1944
(London: Longman, 2001), 85; Conze and Fieseler, “Soviet Women as Comrades-in-Arms,” 226; Dunnigan and Nofi,
Dirty Little Secrets
, 102–3; Kirsten Olsen,
Chronology of Women’s History
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 255.

113
. Doris Kearns Goodwin,
No Ordinary Time, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front on World War II
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 10.

114
. Churchill and Halsey quoted in ibid., 457, 464.

115
. Reina Pennington,
Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001), 1–3.

116
. Kazimiera J. Cottam, “Soviet Women Soldiers in World War II: Three Biographical Sketches,”
Minerva
(Fall–Winter 2000): 19–25.

117
. Pennington,
Wings, Women, and War
, 90–94.

118
. Cottam, “Soviet Women Soldiers in World War II,” 23, 25.

119
. Anne Commire, ed.,
Women in World History
(Detroit: Yorkin, 2001), 11:721–24.

120
. Israel Gutman, ed.,
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
(New York: MacMillan, 1990), 1059–60.

121
. Albert Axell,
Russia’s Heroes
(London: Constable, 2001), 107–10.

122
. George and Anne Forty,
Women War Heroines
(London: Arms and Armour, 1997), 163–64.

123
. Gutman, ed.,
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust
, 495–96. See also Joan Campion,
In the Lion’s Mouth: Gisi Fleischmann and the Jewish Fight for Survival
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987).

124
. K. Jean Cottam, “Yelena Fedorovna Kolesova: Woman Hero of the Soviet Union,”
Minerva
(Summer 1991): 70–71.

125
. Ibid., 70–72.

126
. George and Anne Forty,
Women War Heroines
, 152–53; de Pauw,
Battle Cries and Lullabies
, 237.

127
. Atkin,
The French at War
, 83.

128
. Peter Eisner,
The Freedom Line
(New York: HarperCollins, 2004), 301–10; Saywell,
Women in War
, 314.

129
. Hitler quoted in Toland,
Adolf Hitler
, 876.

130
. Shaaron Cosner and Victoria Cosner,
Women Under the Third Reich: A Biographical Dictionary
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), 125–29.

131
. Robert G. Kaufman,
Arms Control During the Pre-Nuclear Era
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), 190; Paul Kennedy,
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
(New York: Random House, 1987), 352. Göring quoted in Murray,
Strategy for Defeat
, 103.

132
. McCarthy and Syron,
Panzerkrieg
, 38–39.

133
. Dear,
Oxford Companion
, 1063; Masanobu Tsuji,
Singapore: The Japanese Version
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1960), 336.

134
. Dear,
Oxford Companion
, 1063; Masanobu,
Singapore
, 336.

135
. Yergin,
The Prize
, 371.

136
. Matthew Cooper,
The German Air Force
, 1933–1945 (London: Jane’s, 1981), 270.

137
. Yergin,
The Prize
, 347, 361, 366.

138
. Guy Hartcup,
The Effects of Science on the Second World War
(New York: Palgrave, 2000), 14–15; Volkman,
Science Goes to War
, 171. See also Leslie E. Simon,
German Research in World War II
(New York: Wiley, 1947).

139
. Timothy Mulligan, “The German Navy Evaluates Its Cryptographic Security, October 1941,”
Military Affairs
(April 1985): 75.

140
. Hartcup,
Effects of Science on the Second World War
, 89; Mulligan, 75–77.

141
. Toland,
Rising Sun
, 478.

142
. Robert B. Edgerton,
Warriors of the Rising Sun
(New York: Norton, 1997), 294.

143
. Louis Morton,
The War in the Pacific—Strategy and Command: The First Two Years
(Washington D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 2000), 474–75.

CHAPTER 6: PURSUING THE WAR

1
. Loyd E. Lee, “We Have Just Begun to Write,”
Diplomatic History
(Summer 2001): 367–68.

2
. Winston Churchill,
The Hinge of Fate
(New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 80.

3
. Winston Churchill,
The Gathering Storm
(New York: Bantam Books, 1974), 4.

4
. Gordon Wright,
Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945
(New York: Harper & Row, 1968), 68.

5
. Frank McAdams,
The American War Film
(Westport, CT: Prager, 2002), 47.

6
. Russell E. Shain,
An Analysis of Motion Pictures About War Released by the American Film Industry, 1930–1976
(New York: Arno Press, 1976), 358–59; Susan Hayward,
French National Cinema
(London: Routledge Press, 1993), 128–30.

7
. Between the First and Second World Wars, filmmakers and filmgoers were not eager to cast international hostility in a favorable light. War movies were few and far between. The handful produced usually emphasized the dehumanizing aspects of total war, such as
All Quiet on the Western Front
(UK, 1930),
Grand Illusion
(France, 1938), and
Gone with the Wind
(U.S., 1939).

8
. Frederick W. Ott,
The Great German Films
(Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1986), 297.

9
. Ibid., 299.

10
. For further detail of German cinema through the ages, see Anton Kaes,
From “Hitler” to “Heimat”: The Return of History as Film
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989); Michael Struebel, ed.,
Film und Krieg
(Opladen, Germany: Leske und Budrich, 2002). The story of German-American fights over film rights appears in Ott,
The Great German Films
, 296–97.

11
. For details on the film’s creation, see Franciszek Palowski,
The Making of Schindler’s List
(Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing, 1998).

12
. Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Movies as Politics
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997), 101.

13
. For censorship on
Schindler’s List
and other films, see Dawn B. Sova,
Forbidden Films
(New York: Facts on File, 2001), 265–66.

14
. See also Emmet Early,
The War Veteran in Film
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003).

15
. Robert Brent Toplin,
History by Hollywood
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 160, 169.

16
. Ibid., 156–60.

17
. Paul Fussell, “Patton,” in
Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies
, ed. Mark C. Carnes (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), 244–45; Toplin,
History by Hollywood
, 170.

18
. Akira Iriye, “Tora! Tora! Tora!” in Fussell,
Past Imperfect
, 229.

19
. Roger Manvell,
Films and the Second World War
(New York: Barnes, 1974), 333–36; Shain,
An Analysis of Motion Pictures
, 354–55.

20
. Lawrence H. Suid,
Guts & Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 631–35.

21
. McAdams,
The American War Film
, 266. See also Linda Sunshine, ed.,
Saving Private Ryan
(New York: Newmarket Press, 1998).

22
. Marek Haltof,
Polish National Cinema
(New York: Berghan Books, 2002), 83–85.

23
. Eisenhower’s view of
The Story of G.I. Joe
in Brock Garland,
War Movies
(New York: Facts on File, 1987), 188.

24
. Carole Cavanaugh, “A Working Ideology for Hiroshima: Imamura Shohei’s Black Rain,” in
Word and Image in Japanese Cinema
, ed. Dennis Washburn and Carole Cavanaugh (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 250–64. Depiction of confiscated images of atomic blast from Kyoko Hirano,
Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952
(Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, 1992), 59–66.

25
. Phillip Knightly,
The First Casualty
(London: Quartet Books, 1982), 256–58; David McCullough,
Truman
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 418.

26
. Hitler quoted in Albert Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
(New York: Bonanza Books, 1982), 96.

27
. Peter Padfield,
Himmler
(London: Macmillan, 1990), 170–74; Bernd Wegner,
The Waffen SS: Organization, Ideology and Function
(Oxford: Basil Blackwood, 1990), 276–77.

28
. Hitler quoted in Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
, 94.